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WAVE FORECAST AND HINDCAST

MeteOcean group at DICCA publishes daily 120 hours forecasts for
the Mediterranean Basin, for the Seas around Italy and for the
Northern Thyrrhenian Sea.

The WavewatchIII model is operational at DICCA, University of Genoa,
with a 10km grid resolution over the whole Mediterranean basin. A
nested grid of 2km resolution covers the Northern Thyrrhenian Sea and
the Ligurian Sea. Wind forcing is obtained by means of WRF runs with
10 km grid resolution for the whole Mediterranean basin and with 3.3
km grid resolution for the Northern Thyrrhenian Sea.
WRF is initialized with the global model NCEP-GFS at 0.5° resolution.

WaveWatchIII
model (2009) has been developed by the National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Services

Forecast

120 hours wave forecasts for the
Mediterranean Basin, the Seas around Italy and the Northern Thyrrhenian
Sea are published daily. Forecasts are performed on a gridsize of
10x10km for the Mediterranean Basin and on a gridsize of 2x2km for the
Northern Thyrrhenian Sea.

Stream live webcams have been
recollected around the Italian coast to
allow the user to monitor real-time sea conditions.

We can provide customized wave forecast for different needs
(commercial and leisure navigation, ships routing, weather
surveillance, broadcasting of alerts).

Hindcast

MeteOcean group at DICCA has developed an hindcast analysis for the period 1979-2014 for
the whole Mediterranean basin with a resolution of 0.1°. The model chain is forced with
the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
(CFSR) data at 0.5° resolution. The same operational model employed for the forecast has been
employed for the hindcast analysis. Validation of the model has been extensively performed
(see publication).
Output can be provided hourly and can be requested for single points or zonal maps.

For any inquire and information please contact meteocean@dicat.unige.it

Network and Collaborations

Re-analysis and future projection for the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) wave climate in collaboration with the GCCM and GCCRP, Griffith University